LMWH for perioperative anticoagulation in patients on chronic warfarin therapy.
Research article published in The Annals of pharmacotherapy (2004)
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To review current data regarding low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) use for perioperative anticoagulation in patients receiving chronic warfarin therapy. DATA SOURCES: Data were obtained from the Sixth American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Therapy guidelines and a MEDLINE search (1996-January 2003). Search terms included heparin, low-molecular-weight heparin, warfarin, perioperative care, and anticoagulants. DATA SYNTHESIS: Heparin is the most common agent used as bridge therapy for perioperative anticoagulation in patients on chronic warfarin therapy; LMWHs are also used. Studies that evaluated enoxaparin and/or dalteparin were reviewed. CONCLUSIONS: Although published studies demonstrate efficacy and safety of LMWHs, more data are needed to support their use as bridge therapy.
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Resumen
LMWH for perioperative anticoagulation in patients on chronic warfarin therapy.
Por qué esto importa para la hirudoterapia
This review examined current data on low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) use for perioperative anticoagulation bridging in patients on chronic warfarin therapy, drawing on ACCP consensus guidelines and a MEDLINE search (1996–2003) covering enoxaparin and dalteparin. It concluded that while published studies demonstrate efficacy and safety of LMWHs, more data are needed to support their use as bridge therapy. For ASH's domain, the article is relevant only insofar as it concerns anticoagulation management broadly; it does not address leeches, hirudotherapy, or leech-derived anticoagulants. The relevance to hirudotherapy is essentially nil — this is a conventional heparin/warfarin pharmacology review with no leech secretome content. Any interest would be purely contextual, as background on anticoagulant bridging strategies unrelated to leech therapy.
Citación
LMWH for perioperative anticoagulation in patients on chronic warfarin therapy.
Heuts et al. · The Annals of pharmacotherapy, 2004
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